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How This Bakery Used Technology to Evolve Like a Big Business
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Your Essential Full-Service Restaurant Equipment Checklist
Creating a list of equipment that meets the requirements of your restaurant’s menu ensures everything will be in place ahead of the big opening day.
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How to Add a Second Location: 6 Cost-Effective Tips
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How to Scale a Baking Business
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How to Break Into the Headshot Photography Business
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The 100-Year Journey That Led to Miami's Cerveceria La Tropical
Manny Portuondo is bringing a modern Miami audience a product and an experience reminiscent of La Tropical’s original Cuban location, with plans to expand globally.
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How To Write a Business Report: 3 Types of Business Reports
To find useful insight into how your business is performing, you need to analyze all this data. Learn how to create meaningful business reports for managing your business.
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How Much Does It Cost to Start a Business?
What does it cost to start a business? We’ll break down how much you’ll spend to get your small business up and running, along with the types of expenses for starting a new business.
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Using Contactless Payments to Build Customer Connections
Businesses and customers alike are embracing new ways to pay in-store and online. Here are ways these business owners are changing the way they do business with new payment technologies.
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What Young Entrepreneurs and Influencers are Focused on in 2022
Here’s a compilation of tips and predicted trends from a range of Gen Z and Millennial experts that can help business owners shape their approaches to work in 2022.
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How to Optimize Your Bookings on Social Media
Whether you’re a spa, salon or personal trainer, social media booking — and Instagram booking specifically — is a high-growth area to consider investing in and optimizing.
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How Selling on TikTok Saved This Mission-Driven Business
When Jessica Thompson had to quickly pivot her zero-waste eco-friendly shop, Bee Joyful, to primarily online, selling on TikTok helped turn her store into a sensation.
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From Inventory to Payroll, Here Are Areas Business Owners Are Automating This Year
From invoices and inventory to payroll and email automations, here are some of the ways small business owners optimized their business operations this year.
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As the Labor Shortage Continues, Businesses Look to Automation
The pandemic has been an inflection point for businesses across industries for many reasons. This includes the current labor shortage — which is proving to be an ongoing reality. One solution many businesses are turning to is automation for everyday tasks.
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How to Test and Promote New Revenue Streams
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How to Grow Your Personal Training Business
Here are some tips and tools for standing out across platforms, increasing your reach, and booking new fitness clients.
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Augie's Montreal Deli Closes Temporarily as Meat Prices Soar
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How Online Sales Help Small Brick-and-Mortar Stores Expand
A study published by the Data Catalyst Institute found that small and medium retailers have been able to exploit technology and the internet to their benefit. A survey of 2,000 small to medium retailers were asked how they reached their customers.
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How Ice Cream Social Is Extending The Seasons For Their Seasonal Business
Following two successful summer seasons, digital agency and ice cream truck, Ice Cream Social tested a fall truck this season. Here’s how they extended their offerings and the business’ seasons from summer to fall.
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When is it Time for Your Small Business to Graduate to a More Robust Payments System?
Like many small-business owners, Brea Gladney used multiple peer-to-peer payment apps and found it quickly became messy to keep track of payments. “They just didn’t give me what I needed to stay organized in my business,” she says.
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Talking Squarely: How Business Owners Are Navigating Another Unusual Holiday Season
In this episode of the Talking Squarely podcast, three business owners discuss their approach to this holiday season, the challenges they are facing, and what’s giving them hope as they ring in 2022.
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The Art of Donut: Why This Successful Entrepreneur Wants to be a Mentor
Even as a child in Mexico Andrea Aguirre dreamed of owning a business. Now, the successful owner of The Art of Donut shares why she wants to help other women avoid the challenges she faced.
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The Best Small Business Ideas for 2022
Are you an entrepreneur looking for small business ideas to capitalize on in the new year? We pulled together a list of business ideas for 2022.
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3 Apps To Help Businesses Plan Customer Events
Here are a few flexible apps that make tasks like assembling invite lists, sending ticketing information, or updating a live celebration to a livestream as easy as a few clicks.
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Business Entity 101: What Business Structure Works for You?
Learn about business entities and each business entity type, along with how to choose which business structure is right for you.
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How to Set Up a Business Website: 8 Steps to Get Started
Customers often research businesses online before visiting, and your website is an opportunity to own your narrative. Here are eight steps that can help you build out your business website.
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Flash sales and product drops can generate excitement among your audience while giving your sales (and brand image) a quick lift. Here are tips for making these promotions successful.
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How to Create an Online Holiday Shopping Experience
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